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Tonight, for the first time in "all ins" history, well be handing out year-end awards in categories that focus on some of the highest and lowest moments in the politics and culture of the past 12 months. im very happy to have you with us. also joining me to issue their own picks for those awards, josh barrel with "business insider," nancy giles, contributor for "cbs sunday morning," richard kim, executive editor at the nation.com and lynn winstead, comedian and co-creator of "the daily show." no...

Is detailed in five binders each three inches thick. new jerseys plan was 3 1/2 pages with everything blacked out. chris christie is too busy preparing to serve up read redd meat with political is not governing but beginning to remember how to tell the republican base everything they want to hear. and its looking like climate denial is central to that strategy. joining me is james perry, an executive director of the greater new orleans. housing action center. here at the table richard kim, edito...

Possibly enjoying the chicken dance. right now i am joined by marin koegen, and a former member of hillary clintons staff in the u.s. senate, richard kim, executive editor at the nation.com. and a senior editor covering national politics at the atlantic. president obama will meet more people in moore, oklahoma today after the tornado that killed 24 people. high school graduations were held in moore yesterday. attendees held up a photo of teri long while they walked across the stage. long was o...

Communicating with members constituted one-fourth of $57 million in 2010. the most recent year for which tax filings were available. that is a far higher amount than the m.r.a. spends on lobbying or campaign ads underscoring the grassroots nature of the group. >> whats interesting whats emerged in the wake of this tragedy is that the n.r.a. may not speak for its rank-and-file. when you look at polls, i believe conducted even by frank luntz, republican pollster, i think its 78% of nra members sup...

Poor. and according to the senate for budget and policy priorities, fully 62% of the ryan budget cuts come from programs for the poor and despite that fact, poverty almost entirely absent as a topic of the presidential campaign if you want to stay up to date on the politics and poverties of policy, read "this week in poverty" dispah at the nation.com. for the week, well begin with you, sam. >> a couple of weeks ago "the new york times" reported president obama was support yet that democrats were...

Nation.com where they said they had their highest traffic day of the campaign this year, when they put that video up from web streaming. who is streaming as you point out, alex. its not 25-year-old bloggers, its people over 50, who want to get re-ignited. some will share that. is that more valuable than knocking on someones door, doesnt matter because they are doing both. >> i want to play this ad that the obama campaign has released regarding setting up your own grass roots campaign. >> today i...

Across the aisle but now im going to govern. >> wouldnt this be considered loophole government because if george w. bush had done this, liberals whofb hitting the room? >> sure. theres no question that part of what happens when a president flexes authority is that the other branches of government push back against it. thats pretty standard. when youre going into an election year, the point of the president is whether or not his supporters will buy the congressional version of this story or wheth...

Loophole government because if george w. bush had done this, liberals whofb hitting the room? >> sure. theres no question that part of what happens when a president flexes authority is that the other branches of government push back against it. thats pretty standard. when youre going into an election year, the point of the president is whether or not his supporters will buy the congressional version of this story or whether or not they buy his version. >> either way it looks like its moving forw...

Are getting behind. one of the most interesting ones was which candidate agrees with you on issues that matter most among born again christians. you see, rick santorum is getting 23%. ron paul is getting 17%. >> thats right. and you know, i talk about this in my article at the nation.com. there is a media narrative that ron paul has the libertarian vote and the other candidates have the born again vote and theres the split. rick santorum yesterday on "meet the press" said basically theres three ...

Are getting behind. one of the most interesting ones was which candidate agrees with you on issues that matter most among born again christians. you see, rick santorum is getting 23%. ron paul is getting 17%. >> thats right. and you know, i talk about this in my article at the nation.com. there is a media narrative that ron paul has the libertarian vote and the other candidates have the born again vote and theres the split. rick santorum yesterday on "meet the press" said basically theres three ...